Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
Every so often a single image does the work of twenty speeches. This week’s image was the old photograph of young Robert Prevost in 1983, marching in Comiso, Sicily, in protest against the Cruise missiles installed under Ronald Reagan. That protest was organized by the Italian Communist Party. The old photograph fits the man now … Read more
Tycoons might be lining up to appease Donald Trump, but stocks are traded on economic reality. Thank God for the stock market. The market is one of the only things Donald Trump can be expected to listen to—likely more than polls and certainly more than his advisers—even when he doesn’t want to hear what it’s … Read more
As National Review’s resident teenage knife-fighting expert, I was disappointed to read that the actor Idris Elba wants the British government to circumcise all of the privately owned knives in the United Kingdom in the hope that doing so will help reduce crime. Here’s Elba, talking to BBC Radio 4: “Not all kitchen knives need … Read more
An anti-Israel panel event held during a conference hosted by the US Congressional Black Caucus in Washington, DC on Thursday urged the audience to show “solidarity” with the Palestinian cause while rejecting Zionism and justifying the Hamas terror group’s atrocities against the Israeli people. The event, titled “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free: The Struggle for … Read more
Odious views like the Nazi apologia aired by a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast this week threaten to make their way from the fringe to the mainstream. For many of the conservatives who embraced it—myself included—the Trumpian moment promised a more populist, pro-worker GOP. Yet the latest iteration of Donald Trump has dashed these hopes, … Read more
In his zeal to evangelize for electric vehicles, President Joe Biden promised last week that “a typical driver will save about $80 a month from not having to pay gas at the pump.” He even called this “the most important thing my plan will do right away.” If that’s the “most important” thing he’s doing, … Read more
Army Recruitment Ads: China vs Russia vs USA A new public opinion poll featured in The Hill has found that the US military’s reputation is in free fall: The Ronald Reagan Institute just announced that public confidence in the military has continued its precipitous drop. The institute’s November 2021 poll found that only … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of fear, manufactured by individuals who were in the nominal positions of authority as the virus began to spread across the globe last year, according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch. In an appearance on Epoch TV’s “American Thought Leaders” program, Risch, an epidemiology professor at the Yale School … Read more
According to Christian teaching, original sin, our ancestral curse, means that none of us — not one — is righteous. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. The only way we can restore harmony between ourselves and God is through uniting ourselves to the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, … Read more